Ted Underwood

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04 August 2024 21:44

I see very little sign that the tech industry is ready to abandon X. Maybe some faint signs? Otoh, humanities "academic twitter" looks like this now. (If we had video I would put a tumbleweed rolling across the foreground.)

Ted Underwood

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29 August 2024 12:35

Someone should actually fine-tune a model that takes NYT stories and translates them into straight talk. “ … continues to challenge norms about the boundaries of political speech” might become “continues to rely on insults, groundless insinuations, and veiled threats of violence.”

Ted Underwood

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15 September 2024 15:18

A fun experiment here: three fairy tales, generated in response to the same prompt by GPT-3, GPT-4 and o1-preview. You can read them in English at the link immediately below, but if you want to give Mareike your responses, you’ll want the original German page.

Ted Underwood

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15 September 2024 15:19

Humanists will soon want to adapt generic language models to domains with much smaller numbers of source documents. To avoid overfitting, we may need to diversify our sources by synthetically rephrasing them. This paper suggests that entity graphs create more diverse rephrasing. 🧪🤖 #ML #AI

Ted Underwood

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13 October 2024 17:23

I'm going to keep sharing papers in the "personalization" space, because I think they're relevant to the problems humanists & social scientists will encounter in modeling past populations. Of texts! I know libraries aren't censuses.